The Primary Officers' Policy is a living document that chronicles the rules and procedures of the Society of Software Engineers. It is required by the SSE Constitution.
Our primary goals for the 2013 academic year are to:
- Continue to strengthen the areas of the Society that have been successful
- Bring all the Society's efforts to the same high standard that our successful endeavors have set
- Strengthen the Society's standing with the RIT and software engineering communities
- Adapt the Society to the institute's new calendar
- Continue to grow the Society's membership
- Run the Society
- Interact with Software Engineering department and the GCCIS leadership
- Help the President run the Society
- Work with committees on a regular basis to help them succeed
- Track current funds for SSE main bank account and projects bank account
- Approve all financial transactions for the organization
- Maintain who is allowed to make transactions with the SSE procurement card
- Make bank deposits on a regular basis
- Oversee fundraising head
- Document the Society
- Track membership
- Keep the Society's members informed with current events and news
The SSE has 8 committees:
Head: Benjin Dubishar
Goals:
- Work with mentors and past mentoring heads to adapt the review session tests to the semester-course curricula.
- Work with professors to better understand the adaptations of the quarter-courses to the semester-courses
- Continue working with mentors and head of lab upkeep to keep the lab clean
- Work with mentors for a less-direct tutoring method that stresses teaching methods and knowledge over information to a specific application
Head: Corban Mailloux
Goals:
- Build a committee that can maintain regular weekly meetings
- Bring in and set up more company events, both from new companies and those with which we already have strong relationships
- Make sure that all documents and events are well organized
Head: Dan Wallach
Goals:
- Build our own independent infrastructure
- Support projects and other technology needs within the Society
Head: John Renner
Goals:
- Build a committee to help run events
- Delegate larger aspects of events to other committee members
- Be present for as many events as possible
- Keep members better informed about events that are happening.
- Hold more smaller events
Head: Shayde Nofziger
Goals:
- Continue to set up, use, improve the system developed last year to track sales and spending
- Look into new possible payment methods for the candy cabinet and merchandise
- Work together with the head of events to create new fundraising events
- Develop an organized process for purchasing and sales.
Head: Steven Brunwasser
Goals:
- Set up a routine and guidelines for keeping the lab neat and orderly
- Build a committee dedicated to organizing the lab
- Hold events to improve the aesthetics of the lab
Head: Michael Timbrook
Goals:
- Create a submissions portal to better collect project ideas
- Organize projects into categories based on support and funding needed
- Have weekly meetings for larger projects and bi-monthly meetings for smaller projects.
Head: Ben Kantor
Goals:
- Have at least two ViSE talks per semester
- Hold weekly meetings to discuss current ViSE activities, plan new talks, delegate work out, and anything elses related to the committee for that week.
- Communicate what the committee has been doing to the rest of the club.
Each prospective member must complete one “significant contribution” to the Society, which includes but is not limited to:
- Serving as a Primary Officer or Committee Head
- Significantly assisting with events
- Actively contributing to a project
- Serving on the mentoring schedule
For activities that occur within a committee, the Committee Head shall determine whether the individual's contribution is significant enough to warrant membership.
Alumni may apply for Alumni Membership by contacting the Secretary until a more permanent application process is established.